| Court Name: | White Court |
| Previous: | Fuller Court |
| Next: | Taft Court |
| Start: | December 18, 1910 |
| End: | May 19, 1921 |
| Duration: | |
| Location: | Old Senate Chamber Washington, D.C. |
| Positions: | 9 |
| Decisions: | White Court decisions |
This is a partial chronological list of cases decided by the United States Supreme Court during the White Court, the tenure of Chief Justice Edward Douglass White from December 19, 1910 through May 19, 1921.
| Case name | Citation | Summary | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bailey v. Alabama | peonage laws and the Thirteenth Amendment | ||
| Weems v. United States | cruel and unusual punishment | ||
| Bailey v. Alabama | Advisory opinion overturned peonage laws | ||
| Muskrat v. United States | Advisory opinion doctrine | ||
| Flint v. Stone Tracy Co. | constitutionality of corporate income tax | ||
| United States v. Grimaud | control of forest reserves | ||
| Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States | dissolving interstate monopolies | ||
| Dowdell v. United States | sometimes considered one of the Insular Cases | ||
| Gompers v. Buck's Stove and Range Co. | contempt for violating an injunction against a worker's boycott | ||
| Hoke v. United States | upheld the Mann Act, but held that Congress could not regulate prostitution | ||
| Bauer & Cie. v. O'Donnell | extensions of patents by use of licenses, rights of copyright holder regarding “use” of copyrighted works | ||
| Charlton v. Kelly | procedures to approve extradition of criminal suspect to another country | ||
| Stratton's Independence, Ltd. v. Howbert | |||
| Weeks v. United States | establishment of the exclusionary rule for illegally obtained evidence | ||
| Ocampo v. United States | sometimes considered one of the Insular Cases | ||
| Shreveport Rate Case | Commerce clause, regulation of intrastate railroad rates | ||
| Coppage v. Kansas | Economic due process and yellow-dog contracts | ||
| Burdick v. United States | Legal effect of a pardon | ||
| Mutual Film Corporation v. Industrial Commission of Ohio | free speech and the censorship of motion pictures | ||
| Guinn v. United States | constitutionality of Oklahoma's "grandfather law" used to disenfranchise African-American voters | ||
| Hadacheck v. Sebastian | municipal regulation of land use | ||
| Bi-Metallic Investment Co. v. State Board of Equalization | denial of due process procedural protections for legislative and rulemaking acts, as opposed to adjudicatory proceedings | ||
| Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad | power to tax income under the Sixteenth Amendment | ||
| Stanton v. Baltic Mining Co. | power to tax income under the Sixteenth Amendment | ||
| Georgia, Florida, & Alabama Railway Co. v. Blish Milling Co. | responsibilities of parties under a bill of lading | ||
| United States v. Forty Barrels and Twenty Kegs of Coca-Cola | case brought against Coca-Cola under the Pure Food and Drug Act | ||
| United States v. Oppenheimer | doctrine of res judicata applies to criminal cases | ||
| American Well Works Co. v. Layne & Bowler Co. | scope of federal question jurisdiction in patent law case | ||
| Caminetti v. United States | Mann Act applies to consensual extramarital sex | ||
| Bunting v. Oregon | Labor law, ten-hour workday | ||
| Adams v. Tanner | Substantive due process, state's prohibition of employment agencies was unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment | ||
| Buchanan v. Warley | constitutionality of local ordinance compelling racial segregation of residential housing | ||
| Chicago Board of Trade v. United States | Rules of a commodities exchange examined under rule of reason | ||
| Hammer v. Dagenhart | Congressional power to regulate child labor under the Commerce Clause | ||
| International News Service v. Associated Press | property rights in news; misappropriation doctrine | ||
| Schenck v. United States | freedom of speech, “clear and present danger”, “shouting fire in a crowded theater” | ||
| Debs v. United States | sedition | ||
| Abrams v. United States | validity of criminalizing criticism of the government | ||
| Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United States | Fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine in a tax evasion case | ||
| Eisner v. Macomber | pro rata stock dividend not taxable income | ||
| Missouri v. Holland | states’ rights | ||
| United States v. Wheeler | Privileges and Immunities Clause and kidnapping | ||
| Smith v. Kansas City Title & Trust Co. | federal question jurisdiction in state corporate law matter | ||
| Newberry v. United States | Congress lacks the power to regulate primary elections | ||
| Dillon v. Gloss | Constitutional amendment process |